Facts Quote by Daniel J. Boorstin

These matters require what I think of as the Shakespearean cast of thought. That is to say, a fine credulity about everything, kept in…

— Robertson Davies

“Music, states of happiness, mythology, faces belaboured by time, certain twilights and certain places try to tell us something, or have said something we…

— Jorge Luis Borges

What we feel is as true a fact as what we think.

— Hugh Black

“It is so with emotional natures whose thoughts are no more than the fleeting shadows cast by feeling: to them words are facts, and…

— George Eliot

“It’s funny how, sometimes, one can be so convinced, so utterly certain, about something as entirely fickle as strong emotion”

— William Boyd

“When we sit we recognize the crucial, divine importance of absolutely everything that arises—every thought, every feeling, every breath, every unspeakable, unnameable impulse. But…

— Norman Fischer

“A fact is a fact. Whether or not one chooses to believe it is irrelevant.”

— Cathryn Louis

People used to say obvious things ironically or as a form of understatement, but in the last few decades they seem to say it…

— Kevin Hearne

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“There is always meaning. Or at least all things show a disturbing tendency to have meaning ascribed to them when intelligent creatures are present.…

— Iain M. Banks

“Yet it is a fact that no amount of such enthusiasm, however sincere and profound it may be, can compel a problem to yield…

— Max Weber

“That which is profound never lends itself to logical explanation: it involves endless mystery.”

— Soetsu Yanagi